Selling stuff on my blog

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  milanooo · Member · Sep 5, 2012 at 2:00 pm

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  I’m trying to find an answer, but it seams like there’s no sure answer – Am I allowed to sell my product through my blog? and am I allow to add a regular PayPal payment button, and not a donation one? (all the instruction I could find relate only to donations…)
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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 5, 2012 at 2:05 pm

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  It depends what your product is and whether you yourself make it. Artists and designers and authors can sell products here. People who resell stuff made by others cannot.

  The Buy It Now button is not officially available for us, although some people say they’ve gotten it to work. No idea how. Otherwise, it’s just the Donate button we can use.

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  milanooo · Member · Sep 5, 2012 at 2:17 pm

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  Thanks for the quick reply!

  By “it’s just the Donate button we can use” did you meant *able* to use or *allowed* to use?
  cuase I used to work in PayPal, and I know that the donation option is only for NPO ect…

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 5, 2012 at 2:27 pm

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  ABLE.

  And yes, the fact that this is not how the button is meant to be usedis indeed problematic.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 5, 2012 at 3:37 pm

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  There is only one advertising program called WordAds at WordPress.com and it’s for blogs on their own domains. This is the homepage for the WordAds program: http://www.wordads.co/ There you will find the application page as well as FAQs.

  Aside from a blog being accepted into WordAds, no blogger initiated advertising, retailing or reselling the work or products created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed on free hosted wordpress.com blogs. E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.com
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

  On free hosted WordPress.com blog we can use a contact form and/or a PayPal donation button for sale of only products or services created or provided by ourselves.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  If you do require an ecommerce site, advertising and/or affiliate links you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org Refer to > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/